When “Amazing Grace,” the long-awaited documentary of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 gospel performance premiered to sold-out audiences in November 2018, first in New York and then Los Angeles, the reception was euphoric.
NPR hailed the film as “transcendent,” calling it “nothing short of a revelation.”
While the L.A. Times rhapsodized that it was “a captivating artifact, the rare making-of documentary that doesn’t just comment on but completely merges with its subject.”
